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The majority of prisoners are housed in a jail from their home state. Around 91.1% of prisoners belonged to the state in which the prison is located, while 7.5% hailed from other states, and 1.5% were foreign citizens. The number of foreign prisoners in India was 6,370 as on 31 December 2016, a decrease of 5.4% from the previous year.
This is also caused by overpopulation in jails. Penal Reform International claims, that overcrowding in the main source of poor jail conditions globally. This caused overcrowding and understaffing: one of the reasons why there can sometimes be 2–3 people in the same jail cell for a long period of time.
Custodial deaths in India may refer to the deaths in police custody and also to the deaths of persons in judicial custody while undergoing trial or serving a sentence. In the financial year 2021–22, the National Human Rights Commission of India reported 2152 deaths had occurred in judicial custody and 155 deaths had occurred in police custody till 28 February 2022.
Thousands of prisoners should be moved to open prisons to tackle overcrowding and help prepare inmates for release, a former justice secretary has said.. David Gauke, who has been commissioned by ...
Low-level criminals could serve their sentences under house arrest as part of plans to free up prison space and ease overcrowing.. A government review, launched on Tuesday, will explore tougher ...
The previous weekly high, reached on October 13 2023, was 88,225. The latest figure is higher than the peak reached in the aftermath of the 2011 summer riots, 88,179 recorded on December 2 that year.
In July 2021, eight new barracks were added to the jail which could house 200 additional inmates. There were several delays in construction, which lasted five years, due to shortage of funds. This was done in an attempt to alleviate the overcrowding situation, something that the prison authorities were frequently criticized for. [3]
The prison population could pass 100,000 in three years time, the government has said, paving the way for a further overcrowding crisis in the crumbling prison estate.. New forecasts from the ...